Example sentences of "[was/were] she [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 2 | Was she a bad cook ? |
| 3 | Neither was she a whore . |
| 4 | ‘ Was she a partner ? ’ |
| 5 | And was she a visitor in Naples ? |
| 6 | She was dressed differently but it was the same face , the same hair , the same pleasant manner , and I said to her , well I put it to her , was she a twin ? |
| 7 | Was she a sympathizer ? ’ |
| 8 | It occurs to me : Oh good God , was she a romantic , too , in her own way ? |
| 9 | Was she a serious user ? |
| 10 | Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face ? a beautiful body ? |
| 11 | Was she a pirate ? |
| 12 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 13 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 14 | Was she a child then still , that she could not take the decision for herself ? |
| 15 | Was she a fool to hope there had been a deeper meaning in that fierce command ? |
| 16 | Good God , was she a teenager ? |
| 17 | ‘ This young lady , Ruth Cohen , was she a friend of yours ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Was she a suicidal type ? ’ he asked me then . |
| 19 | ‘ Was she a healthy person ? ’ he asked me . |
| 20 | Was she a murderer or something ? ’ |
| 21 | Miss Rose , was she a widow ? |
| 22 | And I said oh Miss wants to know was she a little bugger |
| 23 | I said or was she a little sweetie . |
| 24 | Yeah but was she a woman living on her own or had she got a husband ? |
| 25 | Was she a stray then ? |
| 26 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 27 | Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ? |
| 28 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 29 | If anyone could have written it , why was she the only one to have done so ? |
| 30 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |